Lawman fears young woman will fall into a missing-persons file, a decades-long problem in Indigenous communities that traces back to white settler colonialism, a broken foster care system and the forced assimilation of Native children in the state’s punitive boarding schools.
In Indian Country, everybody seems to know somebody who’s gone missing or been murdered. But one case hit particularly close to home for Greg O’Rourke, the police chief for the Yurok Tribe along California’s North Coast.
A Northern California tribal police chief is challenged personally and professionally with how to solve a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
A Northern California tribal police chief is challenged personally and professionally with how to solve a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
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Joy Crutchfield Sundberg peacefully returned to her Creator on
February 25, 2023 at the age of 90. She was surrounded by family that
loves her deeply. She was born on March 25, 1932 at Yah-ter he-wan on
the Klamath River, the third of five children, to Lila and Edward
Crutchfield. She grew